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Recent Examples of latecomer
Sadie Sink’s Max was a latecomer to the gang, arriving in the show’s second season alongside her stepbrother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) before linking up with the boys and helping Eleven develop in the real world.
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Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
Baker had been a latecomer to the EFL but earned a strong reputation as a talented attacker.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Above it all, flapping in the wind, there’s the stars and stripes, that latecomer flag to native nations.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Qualcomm was viewed as a latecomer to the vehicle control or ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) segment, yet its revenues are almost double those of the early AV control system leader, Mobileye.
—Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025
Baker had been a latecomer to the EFL but earned a strong reputation as a talented attacker.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Above it all, flapping in the wind, there’s the stars and stripes, that latecomer flag to native nations.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Qualcomm was viewed as a latecomer to the vehicle control or ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) segment, yet its revenues are almost double those of the early AV control system leader, Mobileye.
—Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
Noun
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And once again, Pizza Hut was the laggard of the portfolio.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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So Canada has been, admittedly, a defense laggard for a long time.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Getting rid of the Super Bowl stragglers is awkward.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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And the one straggler in that group is Draymond Green.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Pest Control with Cardboard Slugs and snails are drawn to cool, damp cardboard.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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As for any ribbing that his head coach gives him for being an old plodder back, Hammond laughed it off.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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Some frontline library staff have said the Rondo Library improvements could make safety concerns worse by moving bathrooms deeper into the structure, without addressing root concerns about fentanyl users, unattended youth and loiterers coming from the nearby Green Line station.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
27 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Generally, fungicides won’t effectively get rid of sooty mold, but sometimes horticultural oil sprays used to treat overwintering scale or crawlers can help to speed up its removal.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2026
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The hand crawler takes a different approach.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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